Rubber paving and flooring block or slab



Aug. 14, 1923. 1,465,133

W. A. WILLIAMS RUBBER PAVING AND FLOORING BLOCK OR SLAB I Filed Feb. l. 1923 HG, i.r

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WILLIAM ARTHUR WILLIAYMS, OF EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND, ASSIGNOR TO THE NORTH BRITISHv RUBBER COMPANY LIMITED, OF EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND, A BRITISH COMPANY. j v

RUBBER PAVING AND FLOORING BLOCK OB SLAB.

' Application led February 1, 1923. Serial No. 616,391.

To all lwhom. it may concer/n: Y the block and Fig. 2 a section at right angles 4Be it known that I, WILLIAM- ARTHUR thereto. WILLIAMS, a` subject of the King of the The block, as shown, consists of a hard United Kingdom of Great Britain and Irerubber base 1 and' a soft rubber face 2. It ,.5 4la1 1d,and aresident of Edinburgh, Scotland, may however consist of a plurality of rubhave 'invented certain new' and useful Imber layers varying in hardness from a hard rovements in Rubber Paving and Flooring base to a soft face. rlhe block is anchored locksor Slabs, of whichf the Afollowing is to the road bed or foundations by hard metal a specification. w v pegs 3 or like rigid metal projections which 10 .In the manufacture of rubber'roadways may have enlarged lower extremities 3a. and .oors it has heretofore been usual toa'The pegs 3 may be carried by one or more construct vthe roadway orv flooring of slabs metal or otherI plates 4 embedded in the hard or blocks of vulcanized rubber either cebase l or embedded in one of the harder mented toor mechanically attached to the layers of the block; or interposed between v 15 road base or floor foundation and it has been two of the harder layers. Two pegs 3 are found that with surfaces made by this shown on the drawing, but any desired num- -method the rubber. surface gradually beber may be provided. comes detached from the base or foundation Claims: v

owing to the fact that the extensibility -of l. A paving or iooring block or slab coni- 20 the rubber surface-gives rise to displacement prising the combination of a hard rubber due to traffic and consequently destroys the base, a soft rubber face, metal plates emjoint with the base orffoundtion. bedded in the hard rubber base and rigidl vAccording to the present invention the metal projections carried by said plates and blocks or slabs of rubber are provided with projecting downwardly through the hard 25 rigid metal projections extending downrubber base at right angles thereto.

wardly through the lower rubber `face of 2. A paving or flooring block or slab comthe block or slab, the rigid metal rojections prising the combination of a hard rubber being sunk into the road. bed or oundation. base, a soft rubber face, metal plates em-v If desired also the base or surface of vthe bedded =in the hard rubber base and-rigid 30 block orv both the base and surface may be metal pegs carried` by said plates and having grooved, fluted or otherwise designed 'to Vafenlarged lower extremities, said pegs proford a -irmer foothold or attachment to the jecting downwardly through the hard rubfoundation.- v ber base at right angles thereto. f One construction of our improved rub- The fore oing specification signed at 35 ber block or slab is illustrated on the ae- Edinburgh, cotland, this fifteenth day .of

companying drawing b way oflexample, January, 1923. Fig. 1 being a` section engthwise through WILLIAM ARTHUR WILLIAMS. 

